You’d be surprised how many surgeons had History minors. I have had numerous discussions, during surgeries, about intricate details of historical events. Quite entertaining!

As for the MCAT..take it at least one year before you plan to apply to med school, but take it as late as possible to enable you to prepare for it. The key to success with the MCAT is becoming familiar with the types of questions that will be asked. There are numerous sample tests online.

There are MCAT review books and courses you can take. Kaplan and the Princeton Review are probably the most popular. But if you Google MCAT review you’ll get several more options.

Take as many practice exams as you can tolerate. Believe me, once you are in med school you’ll constantly be taking practice exams for the USMLE, so you might as well get in the habit early on! They do help and it helps alleviate some of the concern about the exams. Besides, the practice exams will identify any weak areas that you may want to bone up on before taking the actual exam.

Many potential students take a practice exam for the first time without doing any review work and are surprised that they score in the mid-20’s. If you try that, don’t get discouraged, as that isn’t a bad score for not having reviewed complex material for a year or two.

With your current GPA (which is pretty good!) I would expect that with a little review you should be able to score a 30 on the practice exams.

A bit of advice: Only take the prereq sciences and fill out your course load with other courses that interest you. Verify this with your school’s counselor, but med schools are looking for the ‘well-rounded’ student versus the ‘science nerd’. Well rounded people tend to be more genial, which translates to better health care and fewer law suits.

Enjoy the journey!

Well you should try and get letter of recomendation from some of your medical related instructors.

You should appy to medical schools probably about half way through the final term, provide you know you are doing good or at least start looking at them.

That’s the first obstacle is many Medical Schools don’t have much incoming room. Some have 50 or less openings so they are going to look at the most promising.

Medical school is vastly different it’s real world on the job training, about half your time is in hosiptials and clinics doing work and training. A lot of time is spent doing cadaver anatomy. You take some advanced courses with labs. By third year 3/4 you time is in the hospital and the rest is in lectures or seminars or classes.

You often have to do a reserach project and get on a reasearch team and do an indepedent project.

Then you graduate and get a DM or MD and have to apply to teaching hospitals for internships, which could mean relocating.

You may also want to pick hostipals with specific intent.

Then you intern for a year and take your license exam in the state you intend to practise or resident in or your home state.

Then you either go to work or go into residency programs for 2-5 years.

Your gpa isn’t too low and you do have two more years to raise it. Looking back, i think the mcat is important if not more important than gpa. Even if you have a 3.5 and get a really good mcat score that will open the doors for you to get interviews. Of course your outside activities, club and sports matter too. As for preparation, many people take mcat classes offered by kaplan and princeton. For me it helped because it motivated me to study vs just buying a book and doing things on my own. of course those classes are pretty expensive and not everyone can afford them. If your a motivated self learner than you just need to take at least 2 months and hard cores study on your own. I would take them before the summer between your junior and senior year because that’s when you apply. a lot of times people take it in their summer time so for you that would be next summer because it gives you time to study. its offered a lot of times so its up to you and you can retake it if you were to sigh up for the summer one. hope that helps

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you usually take them the year you apply to med school… i think it’s like the fall of your junior year… im not going to med school, but i am going to grad school, so i have to take the gre… try here for more info…http://www.aamc.org/students/mcat/start.htm also, i would check with the school you plan on attending for med school about their admissions requirements… try to talk with an academic councilor at your current school too